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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poetry, by title

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  • How does Love speak?
    In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,
    And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
    43 lines
  • "America Will Not Turn Back" --Woodrow Wilson
    America will not turn back;
    She did not idly start,
    24 lines
  • "Does It Pay"
    If one poor burdened toiler o'er life's road,
    Who meets us by the way,
    12 lines
  • "Flowers Of France" Decoration Poem For Soldiers' Graves, Tours, France, May 30, 1918
    \Flowers of France in the Spring,
    Your growth is a beautiful thing;
    82 lines
  • "Give Us A Call!"
    Give us a call! We keep good beer,
    Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;
    46 lines, 1 comment
  • "Let Us Give Thanks"
    For the courage which comes when we call,
    While troubles like hailstones fall;
    35 lines
  • "One Was Taken, And One Was Left"
    Two harvesters walked through the rows of corn,
    Down to the ripe wheat fields, one morn.
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • "PH. Best & Co.'s Lager-Beer"
    In every part of the thrifty town,
    Whether my course be up or down,
    48 lines
  • "Where Is Thy Brother?"
    Oh! when I think in what a thorny way
    The feet of men must ever walk and stray,
    28 lines
  • 'Tis The Set Of The Sail -- Or -- One Ship Sails East
    But to every mind there openeth,
    A way, and way, and away,
    24 lines
  • A Fable
    Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,
    A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,
    94 lines
  • A Fisherman's Baby
    Oh hush, little baby, thy papa's at sea;
    The big billows rock him as mamma rocks thee.
    24 lines
  • A Girl's Autumn Reverie
    We plucked a red rose, you and I
    All in the summer weather;
    32 lines
  • A Glass Of Wine
    "What's in a glass of wine?"
    There, set the glass where I can look within.
    29 lines
  • A Golden Day
    The subtle beauty of this day
    Hangs o'er me like a fairy spell,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • A Lover's Quarrel
    We two were lovers, the Sea and I;
    We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky.
    34 lines
  • A Maiden To Her Mirror
    He said he loved me! Then he called my hair
    Silk threads wherewith sly Cupid strings his bow,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • A Maiden's Secret
    I have written this day down in my heart
    As the sweetest day in the season;
    32 lines
  • A Man's Repentance
    To-night when I came from the club at eleven,
    Under the gaslight I saw a face--
    40 lines
  • A March Snow
    Let the old snow be covered with the new:
    The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
    14 lines
  • A Marine Etching.
    A yacht from its harbor ropes pulled free,
    And leaped like a steed o'er the race track blue,
    4 lines
  • A Married Coquette
    Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!
    I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.
    80 lines, 1 comment
  • A Meeting
    Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;
    A song I sang, full many a year ago,
    46 lines
  • A Mother's Wail
    The sweet young Spring walks over the earth,
    It flushes and glows on moor and lea;
    48 lines
  • A Naughty Little Comet
    There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!
    She loved to wander out at night and jump about and play.
    24 lines
  • A Picture
    I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
    One solitary picture struck my eye:
    14 lines
  • A Sculptor
    As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, lifts
    Chisel and hammer to the block at hand,
    28 lines
  • A Servian Legend
    Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,
    When earth was empty, waiting still for man,
    66 lines
  • A Song Of Home
    I am singing a song to the boys to-day,
    A song of the home that is far away.
    28 lines
  • A Tumbler Of Claret
    I poured out a tumbler of Claret,
    Of course with intention to drink,
    48 lines
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